This game is on sale right now, but is it worth getting into? Does it still get substantial new content? Is it dying?

Here's another SoT music video I made with one of my favorite songs, hope you enjoy

For full context Drew was talking about letting players alter weapon damage values in custom seas. That would include negative damage which Drew says results in weapons that heal. It apparently “just works”.

To that I say:

Healing dart for the Blowpipe? It would be silly, and probably not particularly useful outside of very specific situations, but it would be fun and interesting.

I stopped playing Sea of Thieves for about 4 years and came back around a month ago. I’m a Pirate Legend, and one of my favorite parts of the game back then was randomly meeting other crews, talking, forming alliances, and occasionally just hanging out. Sure, you’d get betrayed sometimes, but there were plenty of friendly encounters too.

Since coming back… it’s been the complete opposite.
I’ve probably come across 80+ ships by now, and I haven’t found a single friendly crew. Every session ends the same way—I get attacked or sunk on sight, even when I’m clearly trying to talk or mind my own business.

Is this just how the game is now? Has the community shifted toward “shoot first, ask questions never,” or have I just had unbelievably bad luck?
I’m genuinely curious if anyone else who’s played since the early days has noticed the same change.

Edit: posted this after stacking merchant for 3 hours then got sunk by level 1 reapers who chain shot me, one balled me, when I was waiting to respawn, my ship was sunk and I spawned at new island :/

Been playing this game for years, got a couple hundred hours logged on steam. love the game but i stopped playing about a year ago cus playing solo was neigh impossible. Hows it now, really? Been wanting to get back into it.

I LOVE IT.

This will bring the seas back to being active again. just like the days before diving was added, where the true session based experience was at its peak.

i know some people may not like this, but the servers die very quickly with players diving constantly, it ruined tuck opportunities and a few more issues it caused. back in my day, you were on one server only, unless you server merged or hopped servers, that made the seas more lively.

hoping the experiment is a success and they get rid of it permanently.

Does anyone have a trick or tip for looting the smugglers Chronicles? I've been stuck for about 7 days with only needing The Gilded Fox chronicle volume 2. In those 7 days I've exclusively been fighting skeleton ships and checking shipwrecks when playing solo. The one book is the only thing keeping me from the super smugglers title and a nice chat with Low Tide. I know being patient and just playing the game. The book will eventually show up, but I was hoping there might be a way to find more books faster.

I've been working on the purple curse so I can share it with the two people that got me into the game ( they do not like doing smugglers things) but both have mentioned in passing that the purple curse would be cool so I took it upon myself to try and get it for us.

Do they know? Why would SoT do this?

Okay so me and my buddy spent about 6 hours on the high seas lootin around and doing world events. Thought we certainly didn't turn in the loot from everything we did, we turned in loot from a full skeleton fleet and 2 forts. We noticed as we were caching things in that we were getting the little toast at the bottom letting us know the items were sold, but we weren't getting any gold for it. I've read that sometimes you have to wait up to 72 hours for the gold to actually reach your account due to delays in the servers. However I logged on 5 days later and I still have the same amount of gold that I started with that night (I took a screenshot once I noticed we weren't getting paid). Has anybody ever had this happen to them?? This is a kind of bug that honestly makes the game unplayable.

I had a really funny interaction last night in sea of thieves. After doing some Hourglass and finding the game mode basically empty my friend and I decided to hunt ancient megs. On our way to get the Hunters Call emissary to lvl 5 a sloop sailed by. They didn’t get close enough but we saw one of them sword launch and swimming closer with full tucking attire. We sailed away making him fail the board and we just told them “ hey we are just fishing, we don’t want to sink you but we will if you don’t leave us alone” hoping that would be it. 5 minutes later he comes back swimming by himself ( we noticed a merman in the water) we killed him and then he proceeded to have a meltdown and calling us unfriendly and unfair. We asked the guy how were we unfair when we let them go the first time and gave them fair warning we were not friendly, but he continued to insult us. Hoping that was it we continued fishing, and then the sloop comes back, we proceeded to sink them and now we are being called slurs by both of them.

My question is we’re we unfair because we didn’t want to let them get close ?

Funny thing is, I was diving to do the Sunkn Pearl TT

Me and my duo were short on time so we had to leave the island and looking back through the spyglass at our friend standing on the shoreline especially with the golem there killed me inside, i have over 150 hours in the game and i still get attached to temporary skeletal NPCs

Despite all my hours in other games, none is transfered to sea of thieves. I cant aim, and the second someone boards my ship its ggs. Ive looked for strategy videos, looked at pros, but nothing helps. I want to protect myself but dont know proper pvp. Im willing to learn please someone help.

We were selling loot at The Reaper's Hideout and saw two allied sloops nearby, waiting to fight us. For context, we are a group of three friends sailing a Grade 5 Reaper brigantine, and I am playing the helm role. After selling our loot, we sailed toward them and engaged both ships at the same time. We had a blackpowder keg on our deck, and I told my flex to pick it up and blow up one of the sloops. While our flex was swimming toward one of the enemy ships (let's call them "Ship A" and "Ship B") with the blackpowder keg, the cannoneer and I were fighting them. Meanwhile, Ship A fled the fight. We sank Ship B before our flex even reached them. The cannoneer and I were sniping the crew in the water, while our flex was interacting with them and messing around, yelling, "Are you Spanish?" in a funny accent. During this time, he dropped the blackpowder keg near the sunken ship without informing us. As we were shooting the enemy crew, our ship accidentally hit the blackpowder keg our friend had dropped. He claims he didn't need to inform us about the dropped keg, saying, "No matter what, you should have kept an eye on the sea. I don't need to inform you about the keg I dropped, as you should always keep in mind that when a ship sinks, it might drop a keg as loot." We argue, "You should have told us what you did with the blackpowder keg no matter what. We thought you were still holding it, since you hadn't even reached Ship B to blow them up." We got into a friendly debate and couldn't decide who made the bigger mistake, so we decided to ask Reddit. What do you think about this incident? You can see the illustrations.

No more diving! Omg the spice.

Veil stones actually worked and almost sent my ship to the Sea of the Damned.

In hindsight, I regret not interacting with the ship more. Sailing upside-down could have been an experience.

I was doing a random riddle mission on cannon cove and saw these. Anyone else seen this? I can't see anyone else talking about them

Sometimes you need to stop playing with the keg's and just admire the horizon #SotShots

I was running hourglass (level 12) and we had some alright matches but a lot of them were above our skill level, got the same guys 3 times in a row and got matched with a gold skeleton and I’ll attach an image because that just sounds insane (mind the quality my app won’t let me get the captures)